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Also in the issue is a brief open letter from Ralph E. Miller, teaching fellow in economics. He suggests that Republicans concentrate their efforts at the state and local levels and leave the national government to the Democrats. This seems little more than sour grapes, vintage 1964. Finally, the Review...
In Kipling country, Indians and Pakistanis last week slammed away at one another with polyglot curses and American weapons. In South Viet Nam, sticks of paratroopers fell and bloomed from big-bellied U.S. Hercules transports in the grandest airdrop of the war. In Yemen sun-blackened Arab guerrillas warily avoided...
Shimmering Dust. The major theater of war is the broad Punjab plain, which stretches flat from horizon to horizon. It is lushly green, dotted with clumps of trees, laced by canals. The days are swelteringly hot, and dust clouds shimmer in the glaring sun. It is Rudyard Kipling country, immortalized...
* Tribute paid by the English to buy off Danish invaders in the 10th century. Kipling's moral: "The end of that game is oppression and shame,/ And the nation that plays it is lost!"
Sir: Critics of American involvement in Viet Nam should heed Kipling's advice. Capitulation to Communist takeover bids is the modern form of Danegeld.*